The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1887-04-20
passage by the English Parliament of the
Irish coercion bill.

" 's " ShihS. VI NiS LAItlOlC1ttuu Iln(LU |
| Democrat, was sentenced to six months In
the penitentiary and fined $50.
a terrible wind and dust storm passed
over Hastings, Neb., unroofing the Opera
House and City National Bank. Much
other damage was done In different parts
Of the city.
Arthur S. Austin, an eccentric lawyer of
Vermont, who recently made a fortune of
100000 in Birmingham, Ala, real estate,
was arrested at the instance of his wife,
who says he is insane.
The requisite number of Knights of La,
Dor, of Pennsylvania, signed for the forma.
ton of the Vale Assembly of iron workers.
1t will number its advocates not less than
-, 900 men.
John Ncvc was recently arrested at
Licgc, for trying to smugglc copies Of
Mosts FftiheU across the border. He has
been surrendered by the Belgian police to
the Prussian authorities.
AT the fortnightly meeting of the Nat
ional League Hcaly announced that the
League meetings would continue whatever
steps the Government might take to sup
press the League.
AT a conference of the clergy of Casrcl
Diocese, held at st. Patrick's College,
rhurles, Archbishop Crokc presiding, a
resolution was unanimously adopted pro.
testing against the coercion bill.
Every Mayor brother official in Alsace.
Lorraine suspected of French sympathics
has been dismissed. Even in schools the
same determination is evident to rcpress all
French sentiment.
An Atlanta dispatch claims that Prcsi.
dent Cleveland has definitely accepted an
invitation to attend the Piedmont Fair,
which which will be held in that city
during the first two weeks of October. .
Up in New York they say that Sarah
~Bernhadts head resembles that of Senator
cuscd her Of wearing an Evarts title.
!, Aldacc +. Walker, of the Interstate
: Commerce Commission, stands six feet two
, in his stocking feet, and tips the beam at
l The $50 pound notch.
Sales Of SCOTS and Thackeray's works
have not Eccn overly large of late, but T..
u Il. Roe has made close on to $40, 900
5 already out of his "He Fell in Love With
His Wife"
| Ex-senator Fair, of Nevada, whose term
has but recently expired, did not pass a
singl" week in the vcst-pockot common.
II weaI Turing the period that he sat us its
is rep o~Ltativc.
lord w. Cecil, second son Of the Mar,
QuiS of Salisbury, has just been licensed to
lie Il curacy in Great Yarmouth. lie will
labor in one Of the poorest districts of the
town.
Mrs. CLEVELAND is quoted rs saying that
so many babies have been named for the
d, President that he says he is afraid that in
- 20 years the pcnitcntiarics will he full of
: Grover Clcvclands.
, Danger along the Mohawk river from
- high water is now passed. The Central
tracks were found torn up more than was
= anticipated. Passenger trains arc run on
the West Shore road.
= Archbishop Crokc, of Cashcl, and all the
priests of his diocese have signed a memo.
i rial protesting against the passage of the
J new coercion bill, which the document al
lcgcS is n measure calculated to lead to
t greater crimes.
The police have been ordered TO resume
c~victions on the Marquis of Landsdown's
F., estate next week. This being the case VIM
!, O'Bricn will proceed to Canada immcdi
II atclv to dcnouncc the Marquis course in
S~anctioning the eviction.
d 4 vigilance committee, from Brown
county, Neb., overlook two Young horse
thieves, near Sargent, Ncb., and shot and
killed one of them, Joseph Arnold, and
captured the other, James Bohan. One Of
&c the vigilants was dangerously shot.
The strike of the Union carpenters in
Chicago is still on, and work on many large
d buildings is being retarded in consequence.
a Brick layers and bod carriers have officially
4 announced their desire to help the carpen
tiers.
IS The managers and representatives Of The
different theatrical interests of Chicago met
K al l)OOlcyS Theatre to take action designed
to avert the disastrous effects to travelling
n companies by the in-Statc railroad law.
. y negro living near Grccnvillc, Ala.
d went oil at night leaving five children, the
oldest III years of age, locked up in his
house. While he was absent the house
caught fire and the children were all burned
to death.
Friends of DIR. NIcGlynn, who has ar.
rived in Cincinnati, wished him to visit the
Chamber of Commerce, but no member Of
Chamber could be found willing to intro.
C ducc him TO that body.
Governor Ross. of Texas, has vetoed the
/ tax bill which postponed for one year the
u collection of taxes in the drouth district.
S embracing ONE 20 counties. He declares
that the bill violates the Federal C~onstilu
h ton.
:, The anti-cOerciOn meeting held in Wash
| ington Thursday was a grand success.
Congressman Springer presided. Sympa-
thctlc letters were received from John
r Sherman, Roscoe Conkling, Fitzhugh Lee,
G Sunset Cox and others.
Secretary Whitney has awarded to the
bethlehem Iron Company of Pennsylvania
the contracts for furnishing about 1,400
c tons of steel gun forgings and 1900 tons of
l. steel armor plates, at a total cost Of $4,5l2,
1913.
Hcgcman's drug store, 2O3 Broadway,
New York, was Quilted Monday afternoon
by fire and water, causing Il loss of about
II $4,000. The fire was caused by a gas leak
c which was ignitcd by the lamp of the
n plumber.
The New York JVorld pats Wilson Bar
8 rett on the back for 'imparting some new
V features to a very old play" meaning
Hamlet" 1t was Bill Nye. however,
who first dcplorcd the absence ot local gags
in that immortal production.
f The fiscal proposals in course of prepara
ration for the Reichstag are now known to